A Novel Approach to Resist Shoulder Surfing Attack

In today's technology world one may have been witness password attacks on their applications or even websites. Currently there are many methods that help you provide security as well as prevent various kinds of attacks that your application or website may be vulnerable to. So it has become dire necessity to protect your Applications, Databases and various Projects from these kinds of attacks. Textual passwords are the most common method used for authentication. But textual passwords are vulnerable to eves dropping, dictionary attacks, and shoulder surfing. Graphical passwords are introduced as alternative techniques to textual passwords. Most of the graphical schemes are vulnerable to shoulder surfing. To address this problem, text is combined with colors to generate session passwords for authentication. A usability testing is carried out to measure the satisfactory level of users on the completeness of the system, which include factors such as, total response time to access the system, remembering of password using the system and resistant to shoulder surfing. The testing result shows that the modified colour pass authentication method is resistant to shoulder surfing.